It beats the hell out of being mistaken for an American. The only time that happened to me abroad, I got deliberately stranded by some European fuckhead in a back-country town in Madagascar.

I don’t think that they ever were found in Louisiana, but yes, the Texas horned lizard is in trouble through the eastern part of its range, and the Coast horned lizard is in trouble in California, and I could go on but won’t. There’s 17 species of horned lizard and most are getting rare over part or all of their…

Goes back to the early 60s, I think.

+1 for archaic slang - “booted”

He’s never pleased.

You’ll note that the earlier passages involved being frozen in the ice for considerable periods, and that the Manhattan had to be accompanied by a Canadian icebreaker, which had to free it from ice at least once, as I recall.

D’you think that there will be any cannibalism on this tour?

Well, it’s fall already and the trees are turning. Maybe this winter the subarctic weather will come through for us.

Is it still true that, several times a year, people are apprehended for pissing on his grave? I’d heard that it’s never the same person twice, that they’re inevitably out-of-towners, and that they didn’t make the trip for this express purpose, but were in town for some unrelated reason and when they found out he was…

Either that, or they consider you to be beneath notice because you don’t know this important thing.

Not very, I think. I’ve seen photos taken at night of shoals of them - eyeshine as far as you could see.

No. Pigs are haram.

It used to be. When Ken Whyte took over as editor a few years ago it took a dive from which it’s never recovered.

What sorts of services do they have at this South Park Church of Chirst?

Yeah. I was home from school (sick) that day, and I remember my mother really losing it. That was what I found really distressing, not Kennedy dying.

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Thanks for pointing that out. Missed it on first reading.

...I don’t think that means Titus Groan is going wander into Westeros.

Who doesn’t?

There are lots of adaptations of the sort that you describe. It’s not always easy to decide which function came first. When we can, they’re known as pre-adaptations - evolved for one function but can be modified for another.